OT: (NOT A JOKE) Be careful what you wish for....

[John Esak]

Just a possibly off-topic comment... Well off-axis anyway.   But, I got an
ad for a little Sony voice recorder that has Dragon Naturally Speaking built
into it.  How cool is that?  I got it just about an hour ago. Then I read
about NS in this thread... I gravitate toward seemingly unconnected events
like that trying to tell me something.  I haven't looked at NS for about 5
years ago when I helped someone put it in and before that probably not for
18 years or so when I put it in for my brother back at Nexus in early 90's.
It was actually pretty good then... I would be very surprised if it wasn't
really, really good today with 2 decades under ist belt.

Funny, I never once thought of it for creating filePro apps using it.  I
think for rcabe you are going to have to set it down to recognizing no words
or punctuation at all... Or very little, allowing you to speak in each
letter or symbol separately.

T-a-k-e - - C-a-r-e -,=

J-o-h-n

Hmmm, may not be worth it... :-) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
> m] On Behalf Of Richard Kreiss
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 6:44 PM
> To: bill at celestial.com; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: OT: (NOT A JOKE) Be careful what you wish for....
> 
> Outpost:
> 
> Although I ranted about technology in my previous e-mail, 
> both this and the
> previous one were created using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. No 
> typing just
> talking.
> 
> On the subject of FilePro, I was able to build a screen 
> application which
> permitted the use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking to input data.
> The next thing I am going to try to do is use Dragon to write 
> a program.
> That should be an interesting exercise.
> 
> Richard Kreiss
> 
> GCC consulting
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
> > 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celesti
> al.com] On
> > Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:31 PM
> > To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Re: OT: (NOT A JOKE) Be careful what you wish for....
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> > >>From my non-technical brother.
> > >
> > >This is interesting reading.
> > >
> > >http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11263559
> > 
> > That makes excellent points.  I don't know my wife's mobile 
> phone number
> > as it's on speed dial on my phone.
> > 
> > One of the points I found very good is the section on 
> industrial thinking.
> This
> > ties in directly with an excellent book I'm reading now by 
> John Taylor
> Gatto,
> > ``The Underground History of American Education'' which 
> goes into the
> > primary motivation behind government schools -- to turn 
> most children into
> > effective cogs in the industrial and war machines of the 
> state (think the
> > ``education'' of the puppies by the pigs in Orwell's 
> ``Animal Farm'').
> > 
> > If the UK article is correct about actual changes in the 
> brain, and it's
> applicable
> > to government schooling, that's really depressing.
> > 
> > Bill
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